| BMI | Body Mass Index |
| GWAS | Genome-Wide Association Study |
| SNP | Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism |
| NGS | Next-Generation Sequencing |
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic Acid |
| RNA | Ribonucleic Acid |
| mRNA | Messenger RNA |
| miRNA | MicroRNA |
| lncRNA | Long Non-Coding RNA |
| CpG | Cytosine–Phosphate–Guanine (dinucleotide site) |
| ChIP-seq | Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Sequencing |
| ATAC-seq | Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin Sequencing |
| eQTL | Expression Quantitative Trait Locus |
| CRISPR | Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats |
| FTO | Fat Mass and Obesity-Associated Gene |
| MC4R | Melanocortin 4 Receptor |
| PCOS | Polycystic Ovary Syndrome |
| NASH | Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis |
| T2D | Type 2 Diabetes |
| HDL | High-Density Lipoprotein |
| LDL | Low-Density Lipoprotein |
| GWAS-CNV | Genome-Wide Association Study–Copy Number Variant |
| MR | Mendelian Randomization |
| ACC | Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase |
| FAS | Fatty Acid Synthase |
| SCD-1 | Stearoyl-CoA Desaturase-1 |
| CPT | Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase |
| CoA | Coenzyme A |